[Bug 1713313] Re: Unable to launch pkexec'ed applications on Wayland session

bodhi.zazen bodhi.zazen at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 01:15:28 UTC 2017 

Obviously Phillip you are shooting off your foul mouth without knowing a
dammed thing you are talking about. It is obvious from your comments you
know nothing about wayland or wayland security and that you are just
spewing shit on the bug report.

Wayland , upstream, does not and will not support running graphical
applications, as root, from the terminal using sudo , period, end of story.
There are other mechanisms to grant graphical applications root access, but
again the application itself is not going to run as root.

Perhaps you should read the documentation and security discussions before
you put your foot so far into your mouth it comes out your ass and back in
again.

https://lwn.net/Articles/589147/

http://www.mupuf.org/blog/2014/02/19/wayland-compositors-why-and-how-to-
handle/

https://lwn.net/Articles/517375/

And if you take your fat head out of your ass and look upstream you will
see every bug files against wayland regarding the problem of running
graphical applications with sudo has been closed as either not a bug or
wont fix.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99371

"Wayland dont support sudo users!"

Status <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_status>:
RESOLVED
NOTOURBUG


The is not all in any way claiming you can not run graphical apps as root,
you just need to use another method.

And your comment has nothing to do with running graphical apps in X .


On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Excuse my language Bodhi, but bull shit.  You actually can run wayland
> apps as root just fine.  It is only X11 apps running under wayland that
> no longer run as root, and the reason is simply that gdm3 fails to
> configure Xwayland with a proper Xauthority policy, the way its man page
> says it should.  It isn't doing what its documentation says it should,
> so it's a bug.
>
> Some idiots who think they are the end all know it alls are simply
> seizing on the opportunity to push their agenda that GUI applications
> should not be run as root.
>
>
> ** Also affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided
>        Status: New
>
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>   Unable to launch pkexec'ed applications on Wayland session
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** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #99371
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99371

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Title:
  Unable to launch pkexec'ed applications on Wayland session

Status in Back In Time:
  Fix Released
Status in Boot-Info:
  Fix Committed
Status in Boot-Repair:
  Fix Committed
Status in GNOME Terminal:
  New
Status in OS-Uninstaller:
  Fix Committed
Status in Y PPA Manager:
  New
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in apt-offline package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in backintime package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in budgie-welcome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in caja-admin package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in cinnamon package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ettercap package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gnunet-gtk package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in gparted package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in gui-ufw package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in guidedog package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in hplip package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in italc package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in laptop-mode-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nautilus-admin package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in needrestart-session package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nemo package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in scanmem package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in scap-workbench package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in sirikali package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in synaptic package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in thunar package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in tuned package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntustudio-controls package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntustudio-default-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in xdiagnose package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in xubuntu-default-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in zulucrypt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  *****************************
  Main upstream discussion & fixes example to deal with wayland:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776437
  *****************************

  ********************************************************************************************************************************************

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Install Ubuntu 17.10
  2. Install backintime-qt4 or gparted application from above list (full may be acquired from https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=pkexec+filetype%3Adesktop+path%3A*%2Fapplications%2F*&perpkg=1&page=4 )
  3a. Try to launch backintime-qt4 from shortcut "Back In Time (root)" (located in /usr/share/applications/backintime-qt4-root.desktop, it uses pkexec
  ($ cat /usr/share/applications/backintime-qt4-root.desktop | grep Exec
  Exec=pkexec backintime-qt4)
  3b. Try to launch Gparted from shortcut "GParted" (located in /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop, it uses gparted-pkexec)
  4a.1. Back In Time does not start from GUI.
  4a.2. Back In Time shows error message in console:
  4b. gparted-pkexec does not start, reports error
  $ gparted-pkexec
  Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null.
  Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null.
  Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-121.mount → /dev/null.
  Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null.
  No protocol specified

  (gpartedbin:12831): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
  Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount.
  Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount.
  Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-121.mount.
  Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount.

  $ pkexec backintime-qt4

  Back In Time
  Version: 1.1.12

  Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
  under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

  No protocol specified
  app.py: cannot connect to X server :0

  Expected results:
  * backintime-qt4 may be run as root

  Actual results:
  * unable to run backintime-qt4 as root

  Workaround:
  * setting "xhost +si:localuser:root" helps.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: backintime-qt4 1.1.12-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-11.12-generic 4.12.5
  Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Sun Aug 27 14:23:14 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-26 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha i386 (20170826)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: backintime
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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